The Fiscal Cliff Goes Social with #My2K

President Obama is hoping to enlist Americans in the fiscal cliff talks by tweeting lawmakers with #My2K, Tim Hanrahan reports on digits. Photo: Twitter, Inc.

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... nesting ... Americans all across the country ... to make your voice heard ... to all members of Congress what a two thousand dollar tax Ike would mean to you ... call your members of Congress ... write them an e mail ... posted on their Facebook walls ... you can tweet it using the hashtag mine to carry ... the wide to carry ... why do good ... swing ... who ... was the deadline to ... date ... tweet tweet use them a nest egg might today forty email ... no posts on an Umno member converses Facebook walls ... to do what it takes to communicate a sense of urgency ... Barack Obama on those present Brock Obama earlier today ... talking about ... on the fiscal cliff announced and added this were using social media ... to hope would push on congressional members ... to create ... some solution so that at the end of the year ... this combination of tax cuts and spending hikes ... doesn't send the U S into ... a into another recession ... joining me now from washing DC is to hear and ten ... is the present Obama is latest plan working at least when it comes to ... a word of mouth and bonds ... well it was interesting for him to assert its bustling with this Twitter hashtag out there of course very quickly on Twitter ... this became one of the most ... used hashtags folklore ... supporters of President Obama to do this he said in a really said here's my to do with the two thousand dollars ... I would get from extending the Bush tax breaks for middle-class ... as Lowe's for opponents to use it to him on the president's plan say ... it why his plan will work when Republicans should stand their ground ... on on on on taxes ... the analysis is this something that can work and we've seen ... obviously when it comes to town ... you come to Christ is we seen the media that use Twitter as a vehicle ... have we seen political leaders use it successfully anywhere and is this something that has a chance to ... who was someone to the hashtag about to go to their congressman said wheat you something about it ... I think so I think more record no is creating the perception of momentum you know you ... you get ten thousand or a hundred thousand to a tweet about something even if it's just a small number people ... it seems like a lot of noise a lot of people talking about something ... during the election were you would've seen it was of no clear McCaskill ... when she attacked her opponent in TA taken ... over his remarks in under a lot of tweets about that they kept up the pressure ... on Aikens a point where ... be a lot of his supporters to back away from it ... I think with this Obama strategy you know ... keep the momentum he feels he has in this debate over whether to ... allow the Bush tax cuts for the the top ... households in America to expire of course Republicans ... um you know or try to stand their ground on this and say no ... we want of what the tax cuts for everyone ... including the wealthiest households because we think that's where the economy will grow fast this obviously be a botanist ration Democrats ... and Republicans disagree on this and are trying to ... ensure they have the American people on their side ... and what is the significance of Mike UK with the two cases ... aam Avici the kids there with a purpose it has to do with ... the impact is going to have on the average American household especially those ... making less intuitive fifty thousand to two what with that hashtag come from ... well I think this is the dreaded suitcases two thousand of the Mahdi is in its most encourage people to stay ... with my two thousand dollars of my two K here's what I can do ... if if we allow these tax breaks to continue for the middle class if you were saying ... guy could help pay for my kids' college right to help pay for some bills that are overdue ... things like that ... Evercore is also cut of a play on a wide U K which is the white in case you know ... bought back in nineteen eighty nine two thousand when the Rs is very ... concerted effort to fix computers ahead of ... the millennial ... changeover ... so I can certainly this is kinda catchy thing the Khona makes sense to you to think about and inland last is the sort of like you put your finger in the air and has two wins hearing how are these negotiations going on we came back ... it's a deposit with Thanksgiving holiday ... they're back ... with ... the ... discussions over what to do about this combination of cuts and increases ... I'm you know what to leave any sense of improvement ... we saw some were from Bain this morning from some other leaders ... is there any sense of the ball is actually moving forward ... on hope for a resolution to the ... the elevator to score a citizen is optimistic about the talks ... which Indian takeout for ... what you think it means but ... he also said in one play out the talks an immediate meeting he wanted to keep secret talks ... the secret to the time being of course if one side or the other ... sees a possible advantage and I keep them secret no pun Here about that ... with the major sticking point is this tax issue ... on to the Bush tax cuts continued to expire ... are they expire for some people ... are now Obama strategist with Republicans of course and ... it'd expire for everyone before they expire for ... just the wealthiest in the UK ... and China make a more populist issue ... there's tons of other stuff involving the fiscal cliff including the of the payroll tax ... the AMT patch things like that ... but those are really sticking points those are things that are being held up ... for or be dropped ... but the main issue so remains of the of the Bush tax cuts ... when Beau thank you so much for joining us there was Tim Hanrahan ... a deputy bureau chief in Washington see the present Obama is latest pushing the social media to solve the fiscal cliff